Recaps

The City of Silver’s exploration team reached the Giant King’s Court and opened the doors to the Royal City. When a path’s aura of degeneration threatened Lovia, Luther covered the stairway in shadow, allowing the team to continue onward.

• Colin led the team through the cavern and opened the doors to the Royal City, revealing the Giant King’s Court to the explorers, Klein, and Luther.
• Colin ordered the team to check the stairways, and Lovia sent flesh puppets down both paths to test them.
• The left path destroyed one puppet, while the right path forced the other to tear off its own head and nearly made Lovia do the same.
• Lovia identified an aura of degeneration and prayed to the Blood God for protection.
• Luther covered the right stairway in shadow, and Lovia and Derrick tested it before the team continued.

The City of Silver team crossed a dark palace in the Royal City, where a supernatural sleep claimed Elena, and reached a hall containing the apparition of an ancient meeting. When the Angel of Fate Ouroboros appeared among the figures, the team fell into an illusion and joined the meeting.

• Colin led the City of Silver team toward the tallest tower, taking them through a palace filled with darkness that resisted their light.
• Derrick and most of the team fought off a sudden wave of sleep, but Elena fell asleep and vanished into the darkness.
• Luther watched the team’s exploration and recognized the lingering darkness as an influence associated with the Darkness Pathway.
• The team reached a grand hall with murals and a dark red table, where crimson flames and whispers revealed eleven hazy figures seated in a meeting.
• Ouroboros turned his gaze toward the team, and his revolving ring drew them into an illusion in which they became the figures at the table.

Luther witnessed a past meeting that revealed the origins and members of Rose Redemption, then studied Ouroboros's mural with the City of Silver expedition. The chapter ended with Luther identifying Sasrir and Amanises as the meeting's organizers and learning the Evernight Goddess's true name.

• Luther saw the City of Silver expedition reenact a Rose Redemption meeting, and the Fool broke the fate loop by pulling Derrick above the gray fog.
• Luther examined Ouroboros's mural, which showed eleven figures gathered around a table.
• A City of Silver Guardian spoke the name Aucuses and was burned alive by golden flames.
• Colin Iliad read the names of the figures in the mural, identifying the angels and gods, including Amanises as the Evernight Goddess.
• Luther concluded that Sasrir and Amanises had organized the meeting on behalf of opposing factions.

Luther connected the Evernight Goddess to the Goddess of Misfortune and Rose Redemption, while the City of Silver's team pushed deeper into the Giant King's Court. As Colin opened the doors to the Giant King's residence, Luther heard the sound of the real world's ocean and saw the explorers facing it.

• Luther deduced that Amanises had served Flegrea as the Goddess of Misfortune before becoming the Evernight Goddess, and suspected she had helped establish Rose Redemption with Sasrir.
• Derrick noticed Colin Iliad's shock at the mural, while the City of Silver explorers mistakenly believed the kings' rebellion had caused the catastrophe that drove their Lord away.
• Colin ordered the team to continue exploring, and they advanced through the Royal City while overcoming dangers left by divine power and twilight.
• Colin opened the doors to the Giant King's residence, revealing a vast palace bathed in orange-red light.
• Luther heard the sound of tides from the real world and saw the City of Silver team turn toward the ocean beyond the cliff.

The City of Silver's exploration team reached the sea and fought Mirgon the Light-Slayer, a living Silver Knight guarding the Royal Court. After Colin ordered the team to return and recover, Luther gave Lovia the Silver Knight potion formula and ritual, leaving the route to the Giant King's residence open for a later expedition.

• The City of Silver's explorers saw the sea and a fleet Luther recognized as the Pilgrim Fleet of the Aurora Order.
• Mirgon the Light-Slayer attacked the team, and Luther used Lovia's prayer to reveal the giant's concealed form.
• Luther and Klein helped Colin and the explorers defeat Mirgon, and the team obtained a Sequence 3 Warrior pathway Beyonder Characteristic.
• Colin ordered the injured and exhausted team to return before exploring the Giant King's residence.
• Luther gave Lovia the Silver Knight potion formula and advancement ritual.

Luther helped Fors record powerful abilities on a remote island, then traveled to Backlund to meet Klein, who contacted Trissy through a mirror. The chapter ended with Luther, Klein, and Trissy preparing to exchange information for the final battle against George III.

• Luther demonstrated powerful abilities for Fors until she recorded several, then continued until her spirituality was exhausted.
• Luther traveled to the Loen Charity Education Fund Foundation in Backlund and met Klein, who was using Hvin Rambis's marionette as Dwayne Dantès.
• Luther told Klein he could provide Justice with a Sequence 5 portion using the Gluttony characteristic he possessed.
• Klein used a mirror and a black substance to contact Trissy, who accused him of giving up because he feared the Loen Royal Family.
• Luther warned Trissy not to provoke him, and Klein urged them to focus their resentment on George III and exchange information for the final battle.

Klein, Luther, and Trissy prepared to sabotage George III’s advancement ritual by attacking his mausoleums, and Klein reaffirmed that he would help Luther stop the king. The chapter ended with Audrey telling Klein that George III planned to give a nationwide speech on Saturday.

• Klein explained the plan to destroy George III’s mausoleums, and Trissy chose the mausoleum in East Chester County after Luther objected to her first choice.
• Luther supplied the remaining Secrets Suppliant Pathway blood, completing the collection from all twenty-two Pathways needed to open the mausoleums.
• Klein told Luther he would join the dangerous battle because he opposed George III becoming a True God and could not accept the deaths of ordinary people in Backlund.
• Klein and Luther encountered Audrey and Melissa at the foundation, and Klein directed Melissa to a staff member without revealing that he was her brother.
• Audrey told Klein that her father’s information indicated the king was preparing to give a nationwide speech on Saturday.

Audrey warned Luther and Klein that George III planned a nationwide speech, which could be his advancement ritual or a trap for his enemies. They used Groselle's Travels to draw the Quill of Alzuhod's historical projection, and Klein wrote a reasonable future in which George III advanced if nothing disrupted the event; they then began planning their preparations for the coming fight.

• Audrey told Luther and Klein that the fronts had stabilized and George III planned a nationwide speech, leading them to suspect he would advance on Saturday.
• Klein divined that the speech carried intense malice and might be a trap, but he and Luther could not tell whether George III would also use it for his advancement ritual.
• Luther called on Ankewelt through Groselle's Travels and persuaded him to help Klein draw the Quill of Alzuhod's historical projection.
• Klein used the quill to write that George III would try to advance during the speech if nothing unexpected happened, then the quill vanished.
• Luther and Klein discussed preparations, including the mausoleum items, visiting Queen Mystic and Will, and securing support from their messengers.

As Loen’s citizens gathered to hear George III’s nationwide speech, Benson and Melissa noticed that he had begun calling himself emperor. Luther met Klein on the way to Anniversary Square, where they planned to watch George III’s actions, but Klein revealed that he had found a monocle.

• Benson and Melissa joined the quiet crowd gathering in Cherwood Borough to hear George III’s speech.
• Melissa admired the strange device broadcasting the speech, while Benson wondered why George III had called himself emperor instead of king.
• Luther waited for Klein before they headed toward Anniversary Square to observe George III and respond to his plans.
• Klein arrived late, said he had found what he was looking for, and put a monocle over his right eye.

Luther discovered that Amon had taken control of Klein and tracked him through Luther’s avatar. When Amon threatened to take Klein away while George III’s ritual proceeded, Luther chose to summon the Fool rather than yield to the threat.

• Luther recognized Amon wearing a monocle over his right eye and attacked him, but Klein briefly regained control and warned Luther about someone behind him.
• Luther spotted his missionary avatar Li, and Amon revealed that he had followed the connection between Li and Luther to find Klein.
• Luther summoned the Phantom Tide to disrupt Amon’s influence, but Amon severed the connection and grabbed Klein to leave.
• Luther transformed into a Silver Knight and blocked Amon, who reminded him that George III’s advancement ritual was happening at the distant square.
• Luther refused to be threatened and began chanting to summon the Fool while letting the tide in his mind surge, startling Amon and Klein.

Xio monitored a Backlund square for the Blood Bishop while King George III delivered a speech. After Amon took control of Klein, Klein urged Luther to continue the plan against George III, and Luther reached Memorial Square and alerted the other participants and the Evernight Goddess.

• Xio reported that no suspicious people or disturbances had appeared at the square, while MI9 waited for the Blood Bishop.
• Klein stopped Luther from reciting the Fool's Honorific Name and told him to pursue their plan against George III rather than rescue him first.
• Luther left Klein with Amon and continued toward George III, resolving to avenge the innocent victims.
• Amon told Klein he understood Chinese and led him away, while Klein repeatedly answered, "Just kill me."
• Luther notified Trissy and Bernadette Gustav that the plan had begun, then prayed to the Evernight Goddess for help for Klein.
• Luther arrived at Memorial Square in the West Borough, where George III was addressing a crowd.

Luther confronted a false-shell George III during the king’s speech at Anniversary Square, while the crowd unknowingly joined a sacrificial rite. Luther revealed himself as the Blood Bishop and challenged the king, and Loen soldiers advanced as an unseen force suppressed his abilities.

• Luther questioned Arrodes and learned that the real George III had left the perceptible world and was attempting to reach a higher step.
• George III’s speech stirred the crowd into collective grief and led citizens across the country to pray in his name.
• Luther appeared at Anniversary Square as the Blood Bishop and accused George III of being a false shell.
• George III called Luther a thug and claimed his soldiers would subdue him.
• An invisible force suppressed Luther’s abilities as Loen soldiers charged toward him with High-Pressure Steam Rifles.

Luther exposed George III as the culprit behind the Great Smog and the war during the king’s speech in Memorial Square, but the broadcast center intercepted his words. Luther then appeared outside the center, where Amyrius emerged to confront him.

• Luther hurled his head onto the platform and regenerated beside the microphone, accusing George III of causing the Great Smog and starting the war.
• Earl Hall sent Hibbert to fetch the guards and evacuate his mother and sister, while Audrey celebrated Luther’s public accusation.
• At Backlund’s broadcasting center, a technician told an MI9 liaison that the nationwide audience was hearing a prepared recording instead of Luther’s words.
• The MI9 staff spotted Luther outside the broadcasting center and raised an alarm as he considered using the broadcast equipment against George III.
• Amyrius appeared before Luther and shouted, “Great Nation Builder!”

Bernadette entered one of George III’s secret mausoleums and used the Magic Wishing Lamp to gain Sequence 1 strength so she could confront William Augustus I. At the broadcasting station, Luther told Amyrius that the Nation Builder was occupied protecting a mausoleum, and Amyrius’s confusion showed he knew nothing of George III’s plan.

• The Nation Builder’s gaze descended over the broadcasting station but withdrew without helping Amyrius, leaving him to face the Blood Bishop alone.
• Bernadette opened a doorway into a secret mausoleum and threw a Spear of Longinus toward the tomb.
• William Augustus I appeared above the mausoleum, and Bernadette used the Magic Wishing Lamp to wish for the strength of a Knowledge Emperor for one day.
• The Genie’s wish raised Bernadette’s power to match William Augustus I as she prepared to protect Roselle.
• Luther told Amyrius that the Nation Builder was protecting a mausoleum, and Amyrius revealed that he did not understand what Luther meant.

Luther destroyed the broadcast station’s antennas, but mystical technology kept King George III’s speech transmitting, so he moved on to attack the mausoleums. Trissy encountered Celt at another mausoleum, while Luther’s attempt to reach a different one brought him face-to-face with Zaratul, who was searching for Gehrman Sparrow.

• Luther silenced and struck down Amyrius, then destroyed the broadcast station’s transmission antennas.
• Dr. Torina discovered that the king’s speech continued playing despite the antennas’ destruction, and Luther learned that mystical technology was sustaining the broadcast.
• Trissy entered a mausoleum near Awwa County, where Celt used Sealed Artifact 0-36 to reveal her.
• Luther traveled to another mausoleum but was diverted to a black church, where he recognized Zaratul and learned that he was seeking Gehrman Sparrow.
• Luther challenged Zaratul to divine Gehrman’s location, and the corpse marionettes fell silent as Luther’s body and surroundings became sluggish.

Luther resisted Zaratul’s instant Marionettization, used the Box of the Great Old Ones to escape his sealed space, and entered Ruin No. 1 to destroy George III’s mausoleum. There he encountered the Red Angel Evil Spirit, Medici-Sauron-Einhorn, who greeted him with a taunt.

• Zaratul instantly attempted to Marionettize Luther, but an angry tide surged through their connection and destroyed the church and its hanging corpses.
• Zaratul recognized the dangerous Sefirah within Luther and questioned him about Klein, while Luther confronted him with the Box of the Great Old Ones.
• Luther tore open Zaratul’s isolated space with the box and used Travel to escape to the real mausoleum.
• Luther chose Ruin No. 1 near Backlund and opened its concealed entrance using mixed Beyonder blood and the symbols provided by Mr. Door.
• Purple flames appeared around the mausoleum, and Medici-Sauron-Einhorn emerged and taunted Luther.

George III began transforming into the Black Emperor while awaiting the ritual’s completion, unaware that Luther had arrived to stop him. Medici and Dlink confronted Luther outside the mausoleum, and Luther split into three avatars to fight them.

• George III consumed the potion and reflected on his allies and plans as he began ascending toward godhood.
• Medici appeared outside the mausoleum, where Dlink prohibited teleportation and sealed the space around the battle.
• Medici attacked Luther with the Spear of Destruction, while Dlink isolated the clash from George III’s mausoleum.
• Luther blocked the spear with the Box of the Great Old Ones and taunted Medici before deciding to face both opponents.
• Luther split into three avatars, produced the Devil and Twilight Giant cards, and empowered his avatars with Cards of Blasphemy.

Luther and his Avatars fought Medici, Dlink, and George III’s royal guards inside the Mausoleum, using shared agony and their powers to break through the army. He then invoked justice as a Sun Pathway Justice Mentor and hurled a Spear of Light toward George III’s tomb.

• Medici summoned the Disciplinary Paladin Order and empowered the guards to defend George III.
• Luther stabbed himself with a rib and inflicted his shattered hands’ pain on the knights, while his Avatars attacked them.
• Dlink issued an Edict that weakened Luther’s degeneration powers and let the knights overwhelm him and his Avatars.
• Luther erupted in pure golden light, nullifying the Edict’s effect on him and routing the knights.
• Luther pronounced George III guilty of injustice and threw a blazing Spear of Light toward the tomb.

Luther was struck down by Medici’s combined attack, but Antiya raised the Black Throne from a sea of blood and amplified Luther’s Grazed allies. Luther and his Avatars returned to face Medici and Dlink as a second battle began.

• Luther’s Spear of Light missed the mausoleum after Dlink used the authority of balance to redirect it and separate Luther from the knights.
• Medici gathered the knights’ power into a sword of judgement and used it to destroy Luther and his Avatars.
• A sea of blood rose from the abyss, carrying the Black Throne and Antiya onto the battlefield.
• Antiya sat upon Solomon’s throne, summoned Luther’s Grazed lambs from the sea, and amplified their spiritual power.
• Luther and his two Avatars reappeared on the tide, ready to begin the second round of battle.

Luther and his allies battled Medici and other angels to stop George III’s advancement, but their assault was repeatedly obstructed. With time running out, Luther used the Black Throne to amplify himself and prepared to summon Ankewelt, the Dragon of Imagination.

• The Black Throne opened fire on the Mausoleum, and Luther’s barrage met Medici’s Spear of Destruction and wall of flame.
• Suah attacked Luther and cursed the lambs, but Luther struck Suah through the curse’s connection and drove him back.
• Zaratul arrived and summoned a Historical Projection of Roselle Gustav, whose knowledge attack Luther washed away.
• Luther absorbed M, ordered Antiya to concentrate the amplification effects on him, and drew out Groselle’s Travels to summon Ankewelt.

Luther used Groselle's Travels and the Quill of Alzuhod to summon a Giant whose strike broke the defenses around George III's Mausoleum, allowing Luther's sea of blood to destroy it. Medici then revealed that the Mausoleum had never been one of George III's ritual sites, leaving Luther's attack in doubt.

• Luther used the Quill of Alzuhod with Groselle's Travels to summon a Dragon projection and a Giant.
• The Giant shattered Dlink's barrier and Medici's wall of fire before disappearing.
• Luther's sea of blood surged through the breach and destroyed George III's Mausoleum.
• Luther found no trace of George III inside the ruined tomb.
• Medici applauded and revealed that George III had never intended to use the Mausoleum for his ritual.

Luther discovered that Medici had tricked him with a fake tomb, while Trissy and Bernadette also failed to destroy their assigned Mausoleums and George III neared his apotheosis. After apparently killing himself, Luther reappeared at Roselle’s hidden Mausoleum and demanded that Roselle become his lamb so the former Black Emperor could stop George III.

• Luther realized Medici had deceived him with a false tomb, and Medici taunted him as Antiya and the Black Throne vanished and his combat strength dwindled.
• Hermes kept Trissy trapped in a dream after her charm failed, while Bernadette remained unable to overcome the Nation Builder at George III’s Mausoleum.
• Medici told Luther that the other attempts had failed and that George III was about to become the Black Emperor; Luther challenged Medici over abandoning the Ancient Sun God.
• Luther cut off his own head and vanished, confusing Medici and Dlink, then re-formed from blood near the primitive island that concealed Roselle’s final Mausoleum.
• Luther endured the island’s destructive powers and entered Roselle’s tomb, where he found Roselle lucid but still corrupted by the Primordial Moon.
• Luther told Roselle to become his lamb so the former Black Emperor could replace George III.

Luther persuaded Roselle to let himself be grazed so the Phantom Tide could fight the Primordial Moon’s corruption, while George III threatened to become the new Black Emperor. Luther began the struggle to drive the corruption from Roselle, but it regenerated inside him.

• Luther told Roselle that George III was about to become the Black Emperor and urged him to become his lamb.
• Roselle initially refused, warning that the Primordial Moon’s corruption could overwhelm Luther, but changed his mind after Luther showed him Bernadette’s image and argued George III would threaten her.
• Roselle willingly entered Luther’s palm, and Luther enveloped him in the Phantom Tide to keep him from directly touching his body.
• The clash between the Tide and Roselle’s corruption destroyed Luther’s body, but the Tide began corroding the Primordial Moon’s aura.
• As Luther nearly cleared the corruption, it appeared anew inside Roselle and spread through his body again.

Luther forced the Mother Goddess of Depravity to withdraw her corruption from Roselle by threatening to entangle it with the Fool’s gray fog. Roselle was freed, and the returning emperor appeared in the Astral World as nine mausoleums collapsed across Loen.

• Luther repeatedly used the tide to attack the Primordial Moon’s endlessly rebirthing corruption, but it spread and began to overwhelm him.
• Luther learned that the power behind the corruption belonged to the Mother Goddess of Depravity, while Roselle urged him to let him go.
• A red-haired woman in white appeared beside Luther as his tide barrier neared collapse.
• Luther invoked the Fool and the Mysterious Ruler above the Gray Fog, threatening to make their powers collide with the Mother Goddess’s corruption.
• The Mother Goddess withdrew the corruption from Roselle, and Luther expelled Roselle’s shadow from his body.
• Roselle appeared in the Astral World and announced, “Intis, your emperor has returned!” as nine mausoleums collapsed across Loen.

Luther witnessed Roselle stop George III’s advancement and claim the Black Emperor’s Uniqueness and Characteristics. Luther then grazed the defeated George III as his nine secret Mausoleums collapsed, before M woke him from his prayer.

• Roselle used the Black Emperor’s power of order to halt George III’s advancement and draw the Uniqueness and three Sequence 1 Characteristics into himself, forming a Divine Kingdom.
• George III tried to flee the Astral World, but Luther caught up with him and prepared to graze his damaged Spirit Body.
• George III begged the other gods to save him, but none of their Divine Kingdoms responded as Luther prayed.
• Luther grazed George III, and the nine secret Mausoleums collapsed as the failed emperor’s remains were drawn into him.
• M spoke to Luther and told him to wake up, and his consciousness fell back into his body.